On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Mark A. Heilpern wrote:
>On a side note, why would you ever want to enclose code within a "do { }
>while (0);" block? If you've a legitimate need for a sub-block of code,
>such as to introduce some very temporary local variables, just use your
>braces and forget the do/while.
FREE(x);
becomes
{ free(x); x = NULL; };
I forget all of the reasons, but CircleMUD's CREATE() macro does the
do...while too.
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